Responses for Show #767 - Tuesday, December 29, 1987

Contestants

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Barry White, a househusband from Portland, Oregon

June Ailin, an attorney originally from Washington, D.C.

Cliff Harris, a branch director of the YMCA from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,799)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WILD WEST
SUBURBS
GAMES
SCIENCE
COUNTRY MUSIC
'87 CINEMA
    $100 1
the Pecos River

Barry
    $100 2
[NOTE: Kansas City, Kansas mayor Joseph Steineger, Jr. took issue with his city being called a suburb, as noted in OOPS! $400 in show #882, aired 1988-06-07.]

Kansas City, Missouri

Barry
    $100 11
backgammon

Cliff
    $100 15
a lever

June
    $100 12
talking

June
    $100 22
Adventures in Babysitting

Barry
    $200 7
Geronimo

Barry
    $200 3
Burbank

Barry
    $200 13
golf

Barry
    $200 16
(June: What is blue?)

red

JuneBarry
    $200 27
(Alex: That's right, and we've got less than a minute to go.)

Roy Rogers

June
    $200 23
(Alex: What was Mel Brooks' [*]?)

[ERRATUM: Per the film's closing credits, the character's name is spelled Pizza The Hutt.]

Spaceballs

Triple Stumper
    $300 8
mother of pearl

Barry
    $300 4
Virginia

June
    $300 14
flippers

June
    $300 17
(Alex: 1967.)

the '60s

Barry
    $600 28
(June: Who is Hank Williams?)
(Alex: Oh, no, sorry. This singer sounds a lot like Sissy Spacek, and I thought it was at first, but no, it was [*], Coal Miner's Daughter.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Loretta Lynn

June
    $300 24
Christopher Reeve

June
    $400 9
Billy the Kid

Barry
    $400 5
Reno

June
    $400 20
a royal flush

Barry
    $400 18
hydrogen

Barry
    $400 25
Martin Short

June
    $500 10
the Clantons (or the McLauries)

Barry
    $500 6
Baltimore

Triple Stumper
    $500 21
Pong

June
    $500 19
saliva

June
    $500 26
they're vampires

June

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Cliff June Barry
$100 $1,100 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Cliff June Barry
$100 $2,800 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WEST VIRGINIA
WORLD HISTORY
"QUAD"s
POETRY
PHOBIAS
POLITICIANS
    $200 24
Virginia

Barry
    $200 7
Caesar

Cliff
    $200 21
quadrupeds

June
    $200 16
Herman Melville

June
    $200 8
tyrants

June
    $200 1
Jimmy Carter

Cliff
    $400 25
(Barry: What is [*] of Virginia, er, West Virginia?)
(Alex: You got it.)

the state motto

Barry
    $400 4
the 19th Century

Barry
    $400 22
quadriceps

Barry
    $400 17
(Barry: Who is Lewis Carroll?)

Edward Lear

Barry
Triple Stumper
    $400 9
fear of heights

June
    $400 2
Nixon

Barry
    $600 26
(Barry: What are mounds, mound builders? What are mounds?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
[Barry rereads the clue, mumbling under his breath. The time's up signal sounds.]
...
(Alex: That's what we were going for. June, you're right, you get to select, and we've got less than a minute to go.)

(Indian) burial mounds

JuneBarry
    $600 3
(1 of) Suleiman the Magnificent or Lawgiver

Barry
    $600 23
quadrennial

Barry
    $600 18
"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock"

June
    $600 10
heaven or hell

Cliff
    $600 13
Thomas Dewey

Cliff
    $800 29
Kentucky

Barry
    $800 5
Prussia

Barry
    $800 27
a quadrant

Cliff
    $1,000 19
succeed

June
    $800 11
(June: What is fear of buttons?)
...
(Alex: What is [*] or needles?)

fear of pins

June
Triple Stumper
    $800 14
John Foster Dulles

Barry
    $1000 30
the state boundary (line)

Triple Stumper
    $1,400 6
(Gerardus) Mercator

Barry
    $1000 28
a quadrille

June
    $1000 20
my soul

June
    $1000 12
(Alex: Pogonophobic means you're [*], and that's the year that Abraham Lincoln grew his beard. Cliff, they would be terrified of you, obviously.)

afraid of beards

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Eugene McCarthy

Cliff

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Cliff June Barry
$3,500 $7,200 $9,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

VOCABULARY
(Alex: [Upon revealing Cliff's response] No, sorry, that is incorrect. That's "sailor among the stars".)
CliffWhat is an astronaut?
$3,500
JuneWhat is navigator?
$7,200
BarryWhat is a cosmonaut?
$5,300
cosmonaut

Final scores:

Cliff June Barry
$0 $0 $14,500
3rd place: Emerson stereo system + home game 2nd place: trip to Tampa, Florida + home game New champion: $14,500

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Cliff June Barry
$3,500 $7,600 $8,800
7 R,
0 W
20 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)
24 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $19,900

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Game tape date: 1987-09-21
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